THE PLACE OF KEAT.
Within the limit -of Petrarchian Line, ,#» How seldom sung iiro those high thoughts which sing: That mounting' upward on ethereal wing, Possessed those men who, as fixed planets, shine Above the vap'rous earth: upholding sign And cross of poet-prophet, priest, and king. So when our Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth bring Their sweets compacted, and fox guerdon ask Intelligence prepared to judge tbeir task, Wo hear the three with Keats in concert sing. Enthroned in turn as muse he sits -with them: In "Homer" and in "Sleep," as Greek with Greek, Hear him still mated with the matchless, speak— And find, in lines confined), an incised gem. —Joyce Jocelyn. Itemuera, Auckland, December, 1917.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 48
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115THE PLACE OF KEAT. Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 48
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